The Journal of Functional Analysis presents original research papers in all scientific disciplines in which modern functional analysis plays a basic role. Articles by scientists in a variety of interdisciplinary areas are published.

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Editors-in-Chief
Daniel W. Stroock
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Expertise: Probability theory, Stochastic processes, Related analysis
Stefaan Vaes
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Expertise: Operator algebras, Ergodic theory, Geometric and measurable group theory
Cedric Villani
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon Cedex, France
Editorial Board
P. Auscher
Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France
Expertise: Harmonic analysis, Elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.
F. Bethuel
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Expertise: Nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear functional analysis, calculus of variations with applications to partial differential equations.
H. Brezis
Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus, Paris, France
Expertise: Nonlinear partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis, Sobolev spaces.
E.A. Carlen
Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Expertise: Statistical mechanics, Quantum theory, Quantum information, Functional inequalities.
I. Corwin
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Expertise: Integrable probability, Stochastic partial differential equations, Random matrix theory
G. De Philippis
International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Expertise: Calculus of variations, Geometric measure theory, Partial differential equations.
P. Delorme
Aix-Marseille I University, Marseille, France
Expertise: Representation theory and Harmonic analysis on real and p-adic non commutative groups.
L. Gross
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Expertise: Constructive quantum field theory, Yang-Mills heat equation, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities.
M. Hairer
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Expertise: Stochastic Analysis; Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
M. Ledoux
Paul Sabatier University, Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Expersite: Functional Inequalities; Probability Theory
F.H. Lin
New York University, New York, New York, United States
Expertise: Partial Differential Equations; Geometric Variational Problems; Fluid Dynamics
E. Milman
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Expertise: Isoperimetric, Functional and Concentration Inequalities; Asymptotic Geometric Analysis; Convex Geometry; Phenomena in High Dimension
C. Muscalu
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Expertise: Fourier Analysis, Singular Integrals, Multi-linear Harmonic Analysis
A. Neves
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Expertise: Minimal Surfaces; Geometric Flows
I. Rodnianski
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Expertise: General Relativity; Hyperbolic and Dispersive Partial Differential Equations
L. Saloff-Coste
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Expertise: Geometric Analysis; Potential Theory; Heat Equation; Functional Inequalities; Markov Processes
B. Schlein
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Expertise: Mathematical Physics; Many-Body Quantum Theory; Quantum Evolution; Dispersive Partial Differential Equations
T. Schlumprecht
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
Expertise: Banach Spaces; Convex Geometry
K. Seip
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Expertise: Spaces of Analytic Functions and Related Operator Theory; Fourier Analysis; Analytic Theory of zeta-Functions and L-Functions
L. Silvestre
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Expertise: Elliptic Partial Differential Equations; Integro Differential Equations; Kinetic Equations; Scalar Conservation Laws
K.-T. Sturm
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Expertise: Metric Measure Spaces; Global Analysis; Global Differential Geometry; Ricci Curvature
L. Szekelyhidi Jr
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Expertise: Calculus of Variations; Fluid Mechanics; Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations; Elasticity
D.V. Voiculescu
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Expertise: Operator Algebras and Operator Theory; Free Probability and its Applications to Random Matrices and Von Neumann Algebras
J. Wei
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Expertise: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations; Nonlinear Analysis; Global and Geometric Analysis
Founding Editors
Paul Malliavin †
Editor-in-Chief
Ralph S. Phillips †
Irving Segal †
Publisher
G. Raneri
Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands